All Films

Our Need for Consolation

2012 • 20 min • Sweden

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's block, Dagerman wrote the essay "Our Need for Consolation" about his inner demons and his quest for freedom. For the first time in English, featuring Stellan Skarsgard as an on-camera narrator, this film brings Dagerman's powerful words to life in the form of a visual poem.

Café da Manhã

2012 • 18 min • Brazil

It was the first night of him at her house and all he wanted was to stay for breakfast.

Bloody Night

2012 • 6 min • Japan

A dark alley, a vicious monster and a little girl that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time...

Honeymoon Suite

2012 • 14 min • China

A hotel manager in Beijing, China, must tame an American guest who may not even be human.

Pavel Volya: The End of the World

2012 • 46 min • Russia

Concert of the famous comedian Pavel Volya. In his monologue, the Comedy Club resident discusses the topic of predictions about the end of the world and shares his opinion on what russian people need to be happy.

How to Say Goodbye

2012 • 27 min • Denmark

Olivia and Peter are a couple who occasionally have problems with their communication, especially when it is about Peter's dad. It puts the relationship at a risk.

Murderabilia

2012 • 30 min

Murderabilia is a grim, atmospheric film that plunges into the seedy underbelly of a profoundly macabre market--the buying and selling of murder-related collectibles. The film follows a compulsive collector as he tracks down a specific artifact that was involved in the brutal murder of a young woman. The journey leads him to a reclusive online vendor--a man whose unexpected offer forces the collector to confront the nature of his obsession.

Clouds in a Shell

2012 • 34 min

Jin is a soldier who questions why he is serving mandatory military service. Yun is a teenage girl who struggles to get along with her foster mother. Their paths cross.

Love Still

2012 • 54 min • Uruguay

A 30 years old film director wants to make a documentary about love. His search leads him to a dance for the elderly in an old bar in Montevideo. In this dance he collects 11 stories of love, heartbreak, concrete and unsuccessful dreams, deception, violence and hope. How the future is expected in the final stage of life? Love still?

Our Spring

2012 • 11 min • France

A woman recalls a happy and tragic period in her life in the late 1970s. From the birth of their child to the husband's disappearance in the Loire River where he was having a sunrise swim after an all-night nudist party.

The First Step in the Clouds

2012 • 16 min • Ukraine

Three men, whose neglected lifes seem like poor existence, created for themselves an entertainment: to peep per couples who solitude in the forest. They having fun to watch and then to scare them. And this time they decided to act the same way again, but they found something another, not like they used to...

Zombie World

2012 • 11 min • Spain

In this peculiar zombie world they do normal things, go to work, eat, take a walk, watch TV...but they are not alive. This is about to change.

Coração Tambor

2012 • 37 min • Brazil

Daily life of Belo Horizonte drummer Esdra Ferreira, known as Nenêm. The film goes behind the scenes of the recordings, observing the creative process between longtime friends: Toninho Horta, Mauro Rodrigues and Juarez Moreira, among other musicians.

Noite Um

2012 • 19 min • Brazil

A woman and a young man wake up inside an abandoned garage. They try to find an escape, while a strange transformation takes hold of the woman.

Present Perfect

2012 • 30 min • Thailand

The story of Toey who escapes the big city to mend a broken heart but by coincidence meets Oat, a young engaged man. Both feeling lonely and desolate, their instant friendship increasingly turns deeper to love...

If You Tell Your Dreams They Won't Come True

2012 • 7 min • Israel

An account of a fresh nightmare disturbs the Saturday morning of an estranged middle-aged couple.

Sea Wall

2012 • 34 min • United Kingdom

A man makes sense of his life, love, family and the possibility of faith whilst facing an emotional abyss.

Say Yes and Dance

2012 • 6 min • Finland

Unemployed man applies for a job he doesn't want.

Sechster Sinn, drittes Auge, zweites Gesicht

2012 • 16 min • Germany

A young man is seeing the world through other people's eyes, struggling to find his own perspective.

Alexis

2012 • 10 min

A short horror in which a nine-year-old boy kills his parents. The role of supernatural forces becomes apparent as the dark plot of this cleverly crafted narrative unfolds.

Through The Night

2012 • 6 min

In this romantic drama, a chance meeting between two strangers brings a young punk named Jamie into an encounter with a beautiful but elusive kindred spirit named Fiona who shares her same feelings of loneliness and disillusionment, sparking an intense connection between the two girls in one brief but life changing night where Jamie reaches out for love even as she realizes that she will probably never see Fiona again. But in a world of chance encounters and missed connections, sometimes all you get is one night.

Owners of Portugal

2012 • 48 min • Portugal

Owners of Portugal is a documentary about one hundred years of economic power. The film portrays the State protection to families that dominated the country's economy, their strategies for power and wealth accumulation. Mello, Champalimaud, Espírito Santo - big families intersect by marriage and integrate by finance. Threatened by the end of the dictatorship, their power is restored under democracy, through privatization and promiscuity with politics. New economic groups - Amorim, Sonae, Jerónimo Martins - grow on the same basis. As the crisis unravels the limits of Portuguese economic development model, this film presents the actors and the main choices that brought us here.

Lion Dance

2012 • 4 min • China

Two Lion dancers fight for the leading spot in a performance . When crisis hits , they quickly learn to overcome their rivalry and put on a thoroughly entertaining show , earning the applause of the audience.

Love Weightlifting

2012 • 1 min • United Kingdom

A short film about weightlifting.